From:    " More than Just Works: ARPA 10"

an essay by Jae Emerling, Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Charlotte

“…the work of Linda Luise Brown. Her oil paintings on prepared canvases inflect a tradition of abstract painting that extends from Surrealism to Hans Hofmann to Helen Frankenthaler. The titles refer to nature, but perhaps more precisely to the coast. On the shoreline—where sky, sea, and land meld into one inexpressible sensation—one locates the genesis of Brown’s work. The gestural aspect of the paintings, for instance Ebb Tide (2007), is at once a physical and a psychological gesture: a gesture that produces in the viewer a sensation that exists at the heart of human language. To strive to make this relation evident is the highest vocation of abstract painting. Brown has committed herself to this vocation admirably. But there is also something to be said about the playfulness in Brown’s work. There is an undeniable vitality and frivolity to the work that helps foreground what is at stake in abstraction... This sense of critical play..."